Composite image of the rising Full Moon on New Year's Day, 2018, rising from left to right over a snowy prairie horizon in southern Alberta, Canada. T

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Composite image of the rising Full Moon on New Year's Day, 2018, rising from left to right over a snowy prairie horizon in southern Alberta, Canada. This was the largest and closest Full Moon of 2018 and so ranked as a supermoon, or perigean Full Moon. It is the first Full Moon of January, as the next Full Moon is January 31, when the Moon will also be totality eclipsed. Layers of warm air moving in after an extreme cold snap of -30 degrees C created the inversion layer which led to the very distorted lunar disk as it rose.

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Size: 5219px × 3413px
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer/VWPics/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: astro, astronomical, astronomy, atmospheric, chinese, distortion, flash, full, green, inversion, lantern, layer, moon, phenomenon, photography, prairie, red, refraction, rim, rising, skies, sky, supermoon, winter, years